Liverpool have always created greatness and not bought it whether it's on a managerial level or a player level. People's idea of a 'marquee' signing is of an already established greatness and is a culture that clubs like Real Madrid, Chelsea and Barcelona have displayed that it's poisoned people's expectations of most clubs in the transfer market who have a lot of money to spend. But on this occasion it's understandable because we've just seen Suarez sail off to Barcelona so it's created a sense of urgency that we need to replace him with someone equally as good. That's not realistic though regardless of who we bought. How the hell do you replace Luis Suarez?! There's only two men on this planet who could fill the void left by Suarez and that is Ronaldo and Messi - but that's never going to happen is it! So I guess it's a good opportunity for reinvention - shift the onus of play more equally towards the back rather than monopolise all the play on goals galore up front. With the signings of Can, Lovren and hopefully another full back I think that's what is happening. I think Lallana counts as well because he offers a lot of work rate and running back to go with his attacking qualities, helping to make things more secure further back. We still need an extra striker and it's a shame to hear about what happened to the Remy deal (who would have been more or less perfect) but we don't necessarily need that marquee striker that so many are calling for.
Dalglish? Souness? Lawrenson, Beardsley, Torres, Mascherano, Reina?The Rush re-signing.
All big, big name and big money players when we signed them. All terrific signings.
(And there were some biggish money duds - Collymore, Babb, Scales)
Rafa says "tell a lie often enough in football and it becomes accepted as truth".
I think thats certainly the case with us "never signing stars". Because the money men would LOVE us to fall for these sorts of myths.
And certainly the case when its claimed we always and instantly replaced the stars we sold after our 1977-1984 heyday
Ultimately, if we dont sign an established star to replace Luis, it will take time for a replacement to become established.
Could be a yr, 2, 3 or many more yrs. It took forever to truly replace Souness, for example.
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